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"Let it go" Oil on canvas  110cm x105cm “It can be regarded as a kind of symphony, or in another way as a kind of opera— or even a horse opera. It is hot music, a poem, a song, a tragedy, a comedy, a farce, and so forth. Itis superficial, profound, entertaining and boring according to taste. It is a prophecy, a political warning, a cryptogram, a preposterous movie, and a writing on the wall. It can even be regarded as a sort of machine: it works too, believe me, as I have found out. In case you think I mean it to be everything but a novel I better say that after all it is intended to be and, though I say so myself, a deeply serious one too. But it is also I claim a work of art somewhat different from the one you suspected it was, and more successful too, even though according to its own lights.” Malcom Lowry, on his novel" Under the Volcano" A book (two to be precise, but we decided to use one as the main strength of our look), a canvas. A boo